inflammable

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin as if *(deprecated template usage) inflammabilis, from (deprecated template usage) inflammare, from (deprecated template usage) in + (deprecated template usage) flamma.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭnʹflăm-ə-bəl, , Template:X-SAMPA

Adjective

inflammable (comparative more inflammable, superlative most inflammable)

1. Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
2. Template:figuratively Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.

Usage notes

• (deprecated template usage) Inflammable can be misinterpreted as an antonym of (deprecated template usage) flammable and so taken to have the opposite meaning to that intended. Where such confusion might arise, especially where this may be a safety hazard, one may prefer to use (deprecated template usage) flammable or another synonym.

Synonyms

• (capable of burning): combustible, flammable
• (easily excited): hot-headed, quick to anger

Antonyms

• (incapable of burning): fireproof, incombustible, non-flammable
• (easily excited): level-headed, unflappable

Related terms

• inflammability
• inflammation
• inflame

Translations

capable of burning

• Catalan: inflamable (ca), combustible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 易燃的 (yìrán de)

• Czech: vznětlivý, zápalný, hořlavý
• Finnish: palava, tulenarka, syttyvä
• French: inflammable (fr)
• Georgian: აალებადი (ka) (aalebadi)
• German: brennbar (de), entflammbar
• Italian: infiammabile (it)
• Japanese: 引火性の (いんかせいの, inkasei no), 可燃 (ja) (kanen), 可燃性の (ja) (かねんせいの, kanensei no)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: so-lostey, so-ghreesaghey
• Portuguese: inflamável (pt)
• Romanian: inflamabil
• Russian: легковоспламеняющийся (ru) (lexkovosplamenjájuščijsja), воспламеняющийся (ru) (vosplamenjájuščijsja), горючий (ru) (gorjúčij)
• Scottish Gaelic: loisgeach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: го̀рљив, го̀рив

  Roman: gòrljiv, gòriv

• Slovene: vnetljivo n
• Spanish: inflamable (es), combustible (es)

External links

• “inflammable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “inflammable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) inflammabilis.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.mabl/, Template:X-SAMPA
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: inflammables
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: in‧fla‧mmable

Adjective

1. flammable, inflammable

Antonyms

• ininflammable

Derived terms

• Condition: inflammabilité
• Antonym: ininflammable